Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
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As a person of color, as a woman, as a body moving through this particular space in time, I realize the streets of New York tell the story of resistance, an African-American history of brilliance and beauty that, even in its most brutal moments, did not - could not - kill our resilient and powerful spirit.
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I feel like I am walking in some amazing footsteps of writers who have come before me, like S.E. Hinton, Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Paul Curtis, Richard Peck and Kate DiCamillo, who I love.
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Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.
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Childhood, young adulthood is fluid. And it's very easy to get labeled very young and have to carry something through your childhood and into your adulthood that is not necessarily who you are.
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Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.
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I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.
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I didn't have any idea of what I was getting into by going away to college. And I was scared. I was scared of failing. I was scared of it not being for me because I was going to be one of the first people in my family to go off to college.
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Being a Witness was too closed an experience. That's what I walked away from, not the things I believe.
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I write for whoever needs to read it.
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If someone has something they're really passionate about, that's their brilliance, and my big question is how do we grow that passion/brilliance and/or help them grow.
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When I write, I don't think about messages for my readers.
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My mom was a big fan of Al Green... James Brown we weren't allowed to listen to, so of course I knew James Brown.
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Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.
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I rewrite a lot until I get the rhythm and story right on the page.